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Grow a Show: Considerations in Creating Entertaining Performances for the Modern Chamber Ensemble

abstract: This paper is the writing component of a project the author under took to create an entertaining program for a chamber ensemble. It discusses ways for chamber ensembles to create entertaining concert programs for today's audiences. Information was gathered by analyzing four interesting and successful groups--The Canadian Brass, Mnozil Brass, Les Trompettes de Lyon, and The Blue Man Group--and identifying common traits. These traits help facilitate the ultimate goal of making connections with audiences and include originality, comedy, choreography, memorization, continuous presentation, musical appeal, high quality presentations, and the proper personnel. These attributes were then implemented into the author's experimental group, the Omni Brass Ensemble, for testing with live audiences. Materials were used from published interviews, articles, newspapers, ensemble websites, and recordings of their performances. From the author's performances with the Omni Brass Ensemble, indications are that these findings work with live audiences. / Dissertation/Thesis / D.M.A. Music 2012

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:asu.edu/item:14646
Date January 2012
ContributorsLee, Randolph (Author), Hickman, David (Advisor), Ericson, John (Committee member), Holbrook, Amy (Committee member), Pilafian, J. Samuel (Committee member), Russell, Timothy (Committee member), Arizona State University (Publisher)
Source SetsArizona State University
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeDoctoral Dissertation
Format52 pages
Rightshttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/, All Rights Reserved

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